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Exploring the Nature of Conflict

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students define conflict and violence, and determine the difference between the two. They find positive aspects of conflict while analyzing a conflict which they experienced. They organize their thoughts using a webbing activity.
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Your Stance on France

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the growing unrest in France in November 2005. They read various editorial responses to the violence and brainstorm problems and solutions that might help the people of France move forward effectively.
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Cut It Out program helps spot abuse

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research the Cut It Out program and advertise it to local salon owners and beauticians. Students research the program and the extent domestic violence is a problem in the community. Students determine if Cut It Out is...
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Nonviolence as a Way of Life

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate the example Gandhi set for others to not engage in violence when being oppressed.  In this rebellion lesson, students identify violence and discuss how it is used and often ineffective.  Students create a...
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Effects of 11 September

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students discuss the 9/11 tragedy and the concept of misplaced blame and violence.
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The Colonial Legacy of Sierra Leone (W. Africa)

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners investigate an in-depth study of civil strife in a former British colony fueled by 'conflict' diamonds. They examine how the violence and civil strife rampant in a particular West African nation has a lot to do with its colonial...
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Own Goals

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students  explore steps to control football violence. For this current events lesson, students listen to a lecture about patriotism, policing, and films relating to British football. Students debate the efforts taken in Britain...
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The Dark Side of Family Life

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this family life worksheet, students answer seventeen questions about problems such as domestic violence by constructing short and extended response answers.
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PARAMILITARY VIOLENCE AND THE CONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine documents to reconstruct the past, employ processes of critical historical inquiry to reconstruct the past, analyze aspects of the Northern Iereland conflict through perspectives of documents, and write a short position...
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Crime Watch

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars analyze the recent rise of homicides in some American cities, create and share posters, and write reflective essays in the form of letters to community leaders.
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Kaffir Boy

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students explore the concepts of intolerance and racism in the autobiography Kaffir Boy written by Mark Mathabane. The lesson reveals the story's depiction of the terrible toll of apartheid on the lives of individuals.
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Music: Sing Away Your Anger

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn the song, There Is Always Something You Can Do, to help them deal with anger. They brainstorm ways to resolve situations peacefully and draw pictures of themselves as peacemakers.
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Dictation: Violence

For Teachers 5th - 7th
In this dictation worksheet about violence, students take dictation from a passage about violence.
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Cowboy Violence

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine images of cowboys and gunfighters in Western films and dime novels and discuss whether cowboys were really violent. They read several historical interpretations of cowboy violence. In addition, they distinguish between...
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Day of Kindness

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine and discuss the different types of violence and anger present in their daily lives. As a class, they share their experiences of violent situations they have been in or witnessed. They develop non-violent solutions to...
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Racial Violence in America: Lynchings, 1877 to 1920

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to the concept of lynching as it took place in the American South in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through class discussion and a review of lynching photographs, students explore the reasons behind...
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Breaking News English: Violence Erupts Across Egypt

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "Violence Erupts Across Egypt," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Struggle for Equality

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read and discuss a selection of news clippings, sermons, and narratives that depict the continued struggle for equality and mistreatment of African American citizens. They present a "60 Minutes"-style news program with the...
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Thinking About Violence: Assault

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students explain how the law defines an assault causing bodily harm - identifying the important elements that constitute the offense.
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Thinking About Violence: Sexual Assault

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars explain how the law defines a sexual assault, explain how the law views "consent" in a sexual encounter, extract a list of relevant facts from two stories and decide if the female has consented to sexual activity given the...
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Do We Need a Permanenet International Criminal Court?: War Crimes, Violence, International Law and Politics, Nuremberg

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
For this lesson, students explore the history, relevance and current application of international tribunals for war crimes. Students look at cases from the Nuremberg trials, Tokyo trials and the Bosnian War.
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Urban Concentration And Racial Violence

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate the struggle for racial and gender equality and for the extension of civil liberties, the social and economic impact of the Great Depression, and the economic boom and social transformation of post-World War...
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Thinking About Violence: Child Abuse

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students recognize different forms of child abuse (in story), explain why the government (child welfare) can interfere in family life, and create short "stories" for the other major characters in Ken's Story.
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Controversial Issues

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Hot topics are often engaging and can get heated. High School learners engage in an academic discussion were they must learn to engage with a person holding a different view than their own. They practice discussing different opinions...

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